Design Systems For Non-Traditional Use Cases

Examples, tips, and best practices to be scrappier with your Design Systems and speed up the design process for everyone.

People usually associate Design Systems with polished final designs, cleanly mapped to production code and accompanied by a nicely documented site. This talk isn’t about those systems. It’s about all the other ones. The scrappy, simple, reusable components you use all the time, without thinking. The ones that help you express quick ideas, arrange sticky notes for research, or provide photos and names of people from your team to offer more realistic examples in your designs.

In this talk, Noah Levin, Design Manager for Figma shares some examples, tips, and best practices to be scrappier with your Design Systems and speed up the design process for everyone. He believes designers should only have to design a basic building block once, and everyone else should benefit immediately, without needing to put in all that extra work to create polished finalized documentation.